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IthinkNOT!
03-28-2009, 09:59 PM
These idiots out here have hit an all time low!

Mom went out to go to work earlier tonight (or I guess last night now) and her car wouldn't start. I offered to let her drive my car, but she didn't want to drive an unfamiliar car at night, so I took her to work. While I was there I went in and bought some jumper cables to jump her car with. I left there and picked up one of my friends, figuring that I could jump start Mom's car and have it waiting in the parking lot when she gets off work in the morning.

When we got to the house and popped the hood, I noticed the battery looked different than the one I put in. But I thought I was imagining things. We jumped it and let the car run for a few minutes. Then cut the car off and went in the house to use the bathroom and grab a drink. 10 Minutes later when we went out to take it to wal-mart the battery was dead again. We jumped it, drove it to the wal-mart and went in and bought a new battery. When we took the old battery out there was fresh pinestraw under the battery. The battery that was in our car had been in there since we lived at the old place, and we didn't have pine trees there. Then Mom came out to check on us, and she saw the battery we pulled out, and she was like "didn't my battery used to have a brown top?" Mom is color blind, she sees reds as browns. And she was right, the last battery I put in her car had a red top. So someone was nice enough to swap their bad battery for our good one. Wasn't that just soooo nice and neighborly of them?:slap
YankeeMary
03-28-2009, 10:14 PM
How freaking low is that, right? People are becoming unreal. I am sorry for your Mom. I am glad she wasn't left stranded somewhere.
Taterbo
03-29-2009, 01:31 AM
That is really sad that someone would do something like that...
jonette5
03-29-2009, 07:51 AM
What a bunch of AHOLES to do that. But actually I find it weird that they would take the time to replace your battery with their old one. Why not just steal your good one and run?
evrita
03-29-2009, 07:52 AM
Thats horrible but one question dont you guys lock your cars in this day in age my car is always locked everywhere I go. Someone just cut my antenna off my car. I cant imagine what wouldve happened if it was unlocked.
Jenefer3
03-29-2009, 09:23 AM
Thats horrible but one question dont you guys lock your cars in this day in age my car is always locked everywhere I go. Someone just cut my antenna off my car. I cant imagine what wouldve happened if it was unlocked.

Someone did that to our car too!...but they pulled the whole thing out so now where the antenna was there's paint chipped off and the metal is messed up.

It amazes me what people will do. I'm sorry that happened to you and your mom.
ElleGee
03-29-2009, 09:28 AM
That is just horrid *shakes head*

Jerks
IthinkNOT!
03-29-2009, 10:03 AM
Thats horrible but one question dont you guys lock your cars in this day in age my car is always locked everywhere I go. Someone just cut my antenna off my car. I cant imagine what wouldve happened if it was unlocked.
That was done to both of our cars within the last month. Snapped them off right above the base. Mine has been replaced, had to drop the whole quarter panel to do it. Mom's hasn't been replaced yet, we just kinda duct taped an antenna to her base.
IthinkNOT!
03-29-2009, 10:06 AM
Thats horrible but one question dont you guys lock your cars in this day in age my car is always locked everywhere I go. Someone just cut my antenna off my car. I cant imagine what wouldve happened if it was unlocked.
We do not have a door key to Mom's car anymore. I had an ignition key to her car on my key ring when the house burned down. She had both keys on her key ring, but they were in the house. And when we found them, no one would take a chance on putting them in a key machine because they were afraid they would break off.
IthinkNOT!
03-29-2009, 10:09 AM
What a bunch of AHOLES to do that. But actually I find it weird that they would take the time to replace your battery with their old one. Why not just steal your good one and run?
I figure they must have had a sense of humor and thought it would be funny to watch me cuss and work on a car at 10 o'clock at night. Honestly, we think it was the same guy that hit our car a few months ago. He has been hanging around again, and I noticed him with his hood up and some jumper cables a few weeks ago. I didn't volunteer to help him, though, because he still owes me money, and figured he could take some of that money he owes me and go buy himself a battery,
3lilpigs
03-29-2009, 10:32 AM
We do not have a door key to Mom's car anymore. I had an ignition key to her car on my key ring when the house burned down. She had both keys on her key ring, but they were in the house. And when we found them, no one would take a chance on putting them in a key machine because they were afraid they would break off.

go back to the car dealer and have one made.
WendyLou75
03-29-2009, 10:52 AM
Hrmm... that's amazing to me, but not surprising. The first WEEK I moved back to Chicago ( 1997/1998) I had my Grand Am parked in a "secured" lot, and was living in Oak Park. Pretty upscale area or so I thought, some fool TRIED to get my battery but was unsuccessful. They were nice enough to leave the screw driver and beer bottle behind though. Mechanic said they were trying to steal the battery for drug money, since we lived so close to the South side of the city. Lovely town. LMAO! That's probably why I moved back to TN 6 months later! ;-)
Quaker_Parrots
03-29-2009, 01:22 PM
I find it weird that they would take the time to replace your battery with their old one. Why not just steal your good one and run?

They probably assume because they were women, they wouldnt notice the difference and just think their battery died.